On Aug 29, 2013, at 4:28 PM, Reid Kleckner wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Charles Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Aug 29, 2013, at 11:32 AM, Reid Kleckner wrote:
> 
>> I think the lesson of CC_Default vs. CC_C is that there are *far* too many 
>> places to check for calling convention compatibility, and that it's much 
>> better to use a single representation for equivalent conventions.
>> 
>> Therefore, I'd remove areCCsCompatible() and let 
>> TargetInfo::checkCallingConvention() adjust the the sysv or MS CCs to CC_C 
>> when appropriate.
>> 
>> This way, when you target x64 Windows, the ms_abi attr will show up in the 
>> AST, but it will produce function types that are nicely canonically 
>> equivalent to normal function types.  Similarly, sysv_abi will be a no-op on 
>> sysv targets.
> You mean, like this?
> 
> There's one side effect of your suggested change that still bugs me, though. 
> Now, if we're on a target that uses the SysV calling convention, the 
> diagnostics always say "cdecl", even if the function was explicitly declared 
> "sysv_abi". (Same with Windows and "ms_abi".) This might be slightly 
> confusing to your average user, but for obvious reasons I don't want to add 
> special cases to the places these diagnostics get printed.
> 
> I think the right way to handle this is to build AttributedType nodes for the 
> no-op attribute, but let equivalent and modified types be the same.  The type 
> printer should use __attribute__((sysv_abi/ms_abi)).  Looking at SemaType, 
> it's not clear if this happens.
> 
> Can you write a test for the bad case with a FIXME maybe?
There already is one (Clang :: Sema/ms_abi-sysv_abi.c). I'll add a FIXME there.

Otherwise, OK to commit?

Chip

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